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Teachers in Japan...
This is a top pick! ... avoid, how much holiday I should receive and lots of other things that I have stored in the memory bank. At the moment, I'm obviously still in New Zealand so I am still thinking about that, but as soon as I get home I will switch my attention to Japan ...
In Hot Water
This is a top pick! ... the shore in torturously twisty fashion, and gives amazing views of isloated beaches, rolling surf and flowering pohutukawas- the New Zealand Christmas tree which bursts into crimson splendour for December and January. It reminded me of Cornwall- with ...
$19 the cost of nature.
This is a top pick! ... fast the boat goes. Equipped with speaker system, toilet and swish leather seats we have a very comfortable morning/afternoon fishing on the boat mainly spent asking inane questions to a very hungover Sean and Al, like, "have you ever NOT ...
A derailed train!
This is a top pick! ... never experienced anything as bad as on Boxing Day night. Two new guys were in my dorm, and both of them could snore for New Zealand! One of the guys was in the bed above me, and a few prods from below temporarily put him out of action. The other guy was ...
Three-eyed beasts
This is a top pick! ... watery eyes. We then braved the wind at Slope Point, the most southerly point in New Zealand, and almost equidistant between the Equator and the South Pole. It is the home of New Zealand's most southerly sheep, who seemed windswept but happy. ...
Penguin kisses
This is a top pick! ... rolling hills. It was attractive, but not the spectacular scenery I'd been expecting, until we rounded a corner and the New Zealand landscape did one of its characteristic amazing transformations. Suddenly we were between the rocky walls of the gorge, ...
Whitianga, Coromandel
This is a top pick! ... I learnt some very useful skills there. The most important being how to eat a pot noodle using only half a bread roll and a straw! The campsite provided no cooking or eating gear whatsoever and it cost 10 cent for a 5 min shower so I wasn't too ...
Walks in the woods
This is a top pick! ... eventually took us to Kohukohu where we followed the 'Historic' trail past various 'sites' around the town. These ranged from the oldest bridge in New Zealand to an old train sleeper chassis left at the side of the road. A veggie burger later and we ...
The Pinnacles
This is a top pick! ... walks all over Europe, including a marathon 14 day excursion in Sweden! It was good to walk with someone else, although the walks in New Zealand are so well organised that it is pretty much impossible to get lost. After a couple of hours walking, we ...
Coromandel
This is a top pick! ... up the closer we got to Whitianga so that by the time we arrived it was full on sunshine, superb!!! We headed straight to the beach, where I was quickly reminded of the joy of sandflies, those horrible little black flies that seem to love to bit me. ...
A 144 Hour tour - Greenstone And Kepler
This is a top pick! ... France who lives in England and the other from Maine in the United States) and an older Kiwi couple (not the birds , just people who live in New Zealand ... Funny mental image though ... he he). It's nice to have a mixture of people from different places ...
Finding Something
This is a top pick! ... clever torch/beer bottle/sticky tape contraption that allows us to see in the pitch black. After hearing so much about how beautiful the stars are in New Zealand, we are a little gutted that it is so cloudy tonight, until as if just for us, the sky clears ...
Caving
This is a top pick! ... into the cave. The little Taiwanese couple that were with us couldn't stop squealing with delight as they lowered themselves down into the cave, it was pretty funny. We started into the cave after everyone was down and harnesses were off (the whole cave ...
Coromandel
This is a top pick! ... for i have sinned. It's been three months since my last entry and i've nearly forgotten the end of our trip in New Zealand... Skipped the North tip of the North Island and went instead to the Coromandel Penninsula, where we met up with Diane and Dan ...
One-One to the England with one to play
This is a top pick! ... permit. (OK, I only needed one day to do that but it just so happened that England were playing cricket across the ditch in New Zealand....) So off I popped to windy Wellington for the second Test in the three match series. We had been humiliated in ...
Beautiful beaches, big trees, bad bread...
This is a top pick! ... it is called for the significant stands of large Kauri trees still to be found here. Extensive subtropical rainforest, of which the mighty Kauri (Agathis australis) was king, once covered most of the North Island, but logging and agriculture have reduced ...
Up north
This is a top pick! ... windier the roads (these things hug the mountain for dear life) and the thicker the rain forest. I didn't even know New Zealand had rainforest. The weather is just as unpredictable as the Uk and skips between rain and RAIN!!. So I've seen some glow ...
Glaciers and Hot Pools
This is a top pick! ... the Matukituki Valley with a detour to spectacular Rob Roy Glacier en route. More spectacular for its noisy ice-avalanches crashing down the mountain-side. Luckily we weren't within range, so didn't feel the need to run for our lives! We shared the ...
The Land of the Very Long Dark Cloud
This is a top pick! ... the door by their son Lewis and their daughter Bethany who after just a couple of years on foreign soil had picked up the New Zealand accent perfectly and were now fluent in pronouncing their 'E's' as 'I's' and an enjoyable evening was had by all enjoying ...
Nelson (again!) and Abel Tasman
This is a top pick! ... sands, and the water is so clear. Lovely! The sun was shining as we jetted off and headed to find a nice beach along the Abel Tasman shoreline - eventually we found one that looked quite enough, even though we did have to share with a few kayakers. We ...
Tim Tam Explosions
This is a top pick! ... the Tasman Sea far below was striking against the golden sands of the dunes. It was strange to think this was still the Northlands of New Zealand, I felt like I was in the middle of some far off desert. While we searched for a suitable slope on which to ...
Eastside of Coromandel
This is a top pick! ... the temperature right for your whole body! Was really cool though and glad we did it. Then headed further south down the peninsula for more lovely views before we decided to head further north towards Auckland. This was mainly to get into Auckland ...
Out To Pasture
This is a top pick! ... sunlight as we bounced our way over the unpaved road. We passed through fences and alongside grazing sheep before entering the woods and crossing a stream. Scottie, despite his diminutive size, made it through the rocky waterway unscathed. And before we ...
Teabagged in Coromandel
This is a top pick! ... rugby fans apparently have low social skills and feel the need to pee and poop in along the side of the road forcing the NZ government to introduce a new law. We’ve booked the Hobbiton tour for a couple of days time and so we are trying to arrange a ...
Scaling The Pinnacles
This is a top pick! ... are second only to the Canadian Redwood in sheer size, but they are now virtually all gone - felled for timber - sad really. The descent views were predictably fantastic, as for a while we followed the edge of a valley, with glimpses through the ...
Sore Knees and Bees..
This is a top pick! ... the sake of peeing in Hundertwasser's toilets. We continued past Kawakawa North West then finally headed East back across to Paihia. The scooter journey was absolutely hilarious - and a lot of fun! From the minute we left the lodge and started ...
Landed in Hot Water
This is a top pick! Friday 28th January 2005 Today was the Coramandel Peninsula - some unsealed windy mountain roads, and reach the really nice town of Whitianga - ostensibly to catch the ferry (which turns out to be passenger only), so have to double back to take the land ...
Nut Stops
This is a top pick! ... the track along the bank of the Clinton is undoubtedly entitled to take rank as one of the most romantic bush walks in New Zealand, or for the matter of that, in the wide world. At every step of the way fresh vistas of exceeding beauty open up through ...
H2O Heaven
This is a top pick! ... I had assumed that my waterproof jacket was going to do its job and once again, as is so easily done, I'd overlooked the ferocity of the New Zealand weather. I guess it's times like these that provide a realistic road test for your gear. Maybe mine had ...
Back at the Ranch
This is a top pick! ... Anau back into the tiny township where we stopped, almost instinctively, at the welcoming outdoor seated area of a popular eatery known as 'The Ranch'. Having enjoyed a well earned hearty meal and a couple of cold ones outside in the warm sun, we've just ...